I don't know why I tease Charlie all the time. When I built this site, it was largely because of Being John Malkovich's first draft, and the interviews Charlie gave to promote that film - I really love the interviews he gives. But really, the headboard thing had to get a mention.

Anyway. Needless to say, with the North American premiere of Synecdoche now in the bag, he's started giving interviews, and we have a couple of good ones for ya today.

Confessions of a Creative Mind. How's this for a disturbing quote?

"If I continue to write screenplays -- and I'm not sure that I am -- but if I am, I'd like to direct it."

NOT SURE THAT I AM?? I spent six million hours re-designing this site, I launched it a few weeks back, and now he gives me this?! OH JOY. Says Charlie:

"It's a really weird business. I feel like I've put a lot into this movie -- years and years of my life -- and there's all these sort of issues to do with money. . . . I feel I've got to do something that's going to make money now. I've never done that before and I don't want to do that now. I don't want that to be my motivation for my work because it's my life.

"It's my time, but it's also my heart. I feel deeply about the work I do. I feel I'm being honest in the work in a way that I don't think there's a lot of out there in this business."

Kaufman says he's trying to write a new screenplay, but he finds himself worrying whether he'll be able to sell it.

(Bold added, because I figure this particular nugget might get you excited.)

Charlie Kaufman faces his fears in Synecdoche, New York:

"I'm very interested in the subjective experience of a human being... The world doesn't exist objectively for anybody," he says. "The world doesn't look like what it looks like to us. It only looks like this because our brains are interpreting light waves. I mean, what does it look like if no one's in this room? It doesn't look like this; this is created by us completely, and that's true of everything in the world."

At about this point, Kaufman officially ceases to be the person-I'm-most-scared-of-interviewing-at-the-festival and becomes the inaugural person-I'd-most-like-to-smoke-a-joint-with-at-the-festival.

(The topic of subjectivity is creeping into most of the interviews.)

If you haven't checked out Wired's profile of a profile, you really should, because they've posted MP3s of the 2.5hr interview Jason Tanz conducted with Kaufman for their upcoming feature on Charlie.